The invasion of "spiders" on Mars, they attack the local Inca city: what's going on there (photo)

The Mars Express interplanetary station took Mars in an unusual place. The ECA interplanetary station recorded strange patterns on the surface of Mars, which resemble spiders from height, Phys. org writes. Spider -shaped spots on Mars are located in the South Polar region. Dark spots, of course, are not spiders. They appear on the planet when spring light falls on the layers of carbon dioxide, which has frozen in the dark winter months. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Under the action of sunlight, carbon dioxide, which lies in the lower layers, turns into gas, it accumulates and eventually punches the slabs of the above ice. Following the gas removes the dark material on the surface, destroying layers of ice, whose thickness reaches one meter.

The gas is dark with dark dust, it erupts on the surface in the form of high fountains or geysers that fall backwards, settling on the surface. Thus, dark spots appear on the surface of Mars with a diameter of 45 m to 1 km. Dark spots can be seen throughout the Mars Express image, they like spiders crawling on high hills and large plateau. But most of the dark spots have accumulated in the area on the left, which borders on a part of Mars, called the city of Inca.

This strange name of the terrain comes from its strange relief. The Martian city of Inca is a network of ridges that really resemble the ruins of the city of Inca. This area was opened in 1972 by NASA Mariner 9. The new landscape on the Inca city and its spider "inhabitants" was made with the help of Mars Express high resolution. So far, planetologists cannot say exactly how the Inca city appeared on Mars. According to one theory, sand dunes eventually turned into a stone.